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Thursday, June 18, 2015

TGIFF

Welcome to TGIFF! If it is your first time here, please feel free to look around. Things are a bit crazy at the moment as I am in the middle of a house move. But, I didn't want to miss a chance to host TGIFF, so I saved a little something especially for this post.

In the beginning of the year, I signed up for a bunch of fun swaps on Instagram. I just couldn't help myself, especially when the first few went so well. After churning out a bunch of minis in a row, though, I started getting a bit burned out. So, I am happy to share my last swap mini.....

This one is for the Cotton and Steel Mini Swap on Instagram. The pattern is a variation of the Good Fortune pattern listed for free on the Cotton and Steel website. I reduced it quite a bit to make it mini sized and I changed the layout just a tad. I used the Homebody collection by Kimberly Kight, and mixed in some metallic background fabric. I find it a little funny that the background fabric looks nearly the same as the concrete in the photo. Now I just need to put a label on this mini, send it off and I will be officially done with swaps for a while. That is, until I relapse again.

I could also show you a few pics of my house in boxes, something that I am definitely saying TGIFF about! But, that wouldn't be very interesting. I will say, though, that my studio had just as many boxes as my entire kitchen! Scary!

Now it is your turn to link up! The rules are simple - please only link up finishes and posts that link back to the TGIFF party so your readers can find TGIFF and link up too!

14 comments:

I am totally with you on the swap burnout! I have three going out next week and then one in August and one in September and I am not signing up for anymore. :) I hope I don't have a relapse too! This mini is completely fantastic and your partner is very lucky!

Wonderful mini! With the rate some folks online joined swaps and have to get them out it's no wonder there's been a few mini swap burn out mentions lately. I never catch the swaps on Instagram in time to sign up and while that's disappointing sometimes I think it might be a blessing in disguise :) Thanks for hosting the link up this week!

Good luck with your move; I hope it is an easy transition. Thanks of hosting TGIFF in the middle of this big change! Your C+S mini quilt looks wonderful, and I really like the straight line quilting you used to echo the shapes.

Another gorgeous mini! Hope the moves goes well! Are you buying and selling too? It's just taken my mum since 28 January to get the finance and legal stuff sorted, and she Finally moved last weekend!!!!!'

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Well, I took my first quilting class a few years ago, but I still consider myself a "Newbie". After several periods of non-quilting, I had only finished a handful of quilts and was still trying out new techniques and styles to find "my thing". Then I started this blog. It has inspired me to grow in my craft in ways I didn't expect.

I created this blog for numerous reasons: 1) to motivate me to quilt on a more continuous basis, 2) to appeal to other Newbie Quilters out there (sometimes hearing the trials and tribulations of someone at a similar level of expertise is even better than getting the info from a pro)., and 3) to make more quilting friends.

Now for what you are really wondering...why am I in the closet? Well, as a Newbie, I am still learning my skills. And while my family and a few select friends know that I am a quilter, that knowledge is still met with whispers and eyebrow raising. I even still get the occasional, "Seems a little young to be doing such things". So until I am ready to say it loud and proud, I remain "in the closet", except to those of you that share my passion.